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Sunday, November 01, 2009

Trick or Treat

Costumes, sugar high, glow sticks. What's there not to like about Halloween if you're a kid? Needless to say my kids had a terrific time. Unlike previous years, though we actually went trick or treating outside.

Much like the Dodo bird, sidewalks appear to be extinct in the fine Commonwealth of MA. Alright, there are some. Perhaps they are rather rare like the panda bear. While neither endangered nor extinct, other kids are also not to be found in our neighborhood. We have therefore taken the boys to the mall in past years for trick or treating. That way they can run around and not worry about getting hit by a car when they are the sole trick or treaters wandering the streets.

This year a friend invited us to go trick or treating in her neighborhood. Although there are only a few additional sidewalks, there are a lot more kids, thus discouraging all but the most overzealous Massholes from speeding. My two boys had a blast. My older son (OS) went running ahead with the big kids. They ran up to each door, trick or treated and then headed on to the next house while my younger son (YS) and his two year old friend toddled up to the original house.

This is more of an athletic endeavor than those of you from outside of New England might think. It's not flat here. (Yeah, I know it's not the Rockies either.) There are a lot of steeply sloped driveways. In fact I was more tired from the trick or treating than I was from yesterday morning's spinning class. Trick or treaters really earn their candy. Parents really earned their candy. Or didn't they? That's right they didn't because the system is broken! Broken I tell you!

I walked just as far as my kids yet no one offered me candy. Sure I wasn't wearing a costume, but with the humidity and touch of rain my hair poofed out making me look like the Bride of Frankenstein. I explained this all to my kids. It was a joint effort to get the candy therefore I was just as entitled to the candy as they were. They didn't even pause from eating their candy to look at me.

I have now drafed a new tax proposal for our house to be approved, ratified and signed by yours truly. There will now be a candy tax imposed. 40% of all candy earned from trick or treating will be handed over to me. And no this does not mean I get handed all the gross candy that no one wants. It's 40% of the good stuff.

Of course, every dentist will warn you that there are unfortunate consequences to eating too much candy, and sure enough OS did lose his second tooth this morning. In fairness, it actually was loose long before Halloween candy.

A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: Parents are entitled to 40% of the gross take on Halloween, not 40% of the gross candy.

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